What would you have done differently?

Have a plan

Lock down contracts and film some stuff in secret like the cameo nobody knew about and get some ndas out there

5 white people, one token black man.
I think I know what I would have done differently

All of their punches had the same effect on the wraiths there was no weight to it.

It's bad enough that Martian Manhunter is fighting hand to hand and not shapeshifting at all, but for lesbian Canary and Batwoman to do the same level as damage as him?
Even the random civilian gook wasn't getting mauled by the ghost beings that killed Oliver

i only ever watched the first two seasons of flash. someone give me a crash course on what the fuck they did with black/white/orange canary and why

This. Make the hot women nudists. The costumes, if needed, can be body paint.

Establish the Anti Monitor as character WAY before Crisis. He felt one dimensional and boring.

They introduced Laurel Lance in season 1 of Arrow but she was just a lawyer and Oliver's childhood sweetheart/ex girlfriend.

Oliver cheated on her with her sister Sara.
Sara was on the boat with Oliver that got wrecked and had him stranded on a deserted island for 5 years, she seemingly died in two different shipwrecks

Instead she got rescued and inducted into the League of Assassins, became a killer and then the vigilante The Canary

Sara got killed at the beginning of season 3 by Oliver's brainwashed sister.
Laurel decided to honor her by becoming the Black Canary, but she had very little training so she lost a lot. She wore a collar that gave her a fairly useless Canary Cry. And then she got killed in season 4 because the creators decided to kill off a main cast member as a ratings grab

There was a chick who stole Laurel's costume and collar for like an episode, but she ended up working for the main bad guy of season 5 and died in a cage as the island blew up around her.

The Flash introduced Laurel's Earth-2 villainous doppelganger, Black Siren. She was a meta with an actual Canary Cry and didn't lose in fights nearly as often as Earth-1 Laurel. She had a long redemptive arc and eventually became another Black Canary

Finally Dinah Drake was also introduced, unrelated to the previous Black Canaries. She former undercover cop who got caught up in the Particlar Accelerator explosion, became a meta (with a decidedly weaker Canary Cry than Siren). Oliver and his team decided to recruit her and let her become the new Black Canary. She rejoined the Star City police, became Captain, and stayed on the show until the end.

Before Laurel died she found out about the Lazarus Pits, dug up Sara's body and threw her in. Sara had been dead for like a year feral, without her soul. So Laurel kept her chained up in her basement
John Constantine got her soul back
She joined the Time Traveling team the Legends as White Canary, quickly usurping Rip Hunter as leader.

Anti-Monitor is kinda' one-dimensional and boring even in the comics. He's just a textbook evil overlord.

Not killing every series

thats just anti in general, hes the big granddaddy daddy of the big event villains

that's retarded but also it's comic books
i don't remember constantine being part of the arrowverse but no rules, i guess

He got bumped over after his show on NBC a few times. Same actor, showed up in Arrow a few times and is now on Legends of Tomorrow.

No hallway talks. Those shit took about 20 minutes total across all series involved.

Benoist as Power Girl with big CGI tits helps them fight the monitor

Everything except Flash 90's death

this.

I would not have attempted to adapt the biggest DC story of all time on the fucking CW with a budget consisting of pocket change. But I certainly wouldn't have made Anti-Monitor defeated by being shrunk either.

I pretty much only watch Flash after giving all the other Arrowverse shows a fair shake and it was weird that they tried to set up Crisis and completely failed to set the stakes. The characters mentioned "Crisis" every episode, said they were planning for it, expecting it, but not really knowing what it was. They were trying to establish dread and instead it felt like groundswell advertising for a big car dealership sale.

And after it was all done they had a route to take about exploring the new merged universe and just hand waved it with Cisco making a set of trading cards "here's all the changes"

Paragons could have been cool. Except they used a magic machine that told them who was what leaving no room for discovery. And in the end all they did was stand in a line and this works somehow helping defeat Anti.

Oliver dying twice was redundant.

Why make J'on so important to the story if you're not going to let him use his martian form?

Why shoehorn Black Lightning in? Half of the appeal of his show was there was no connection to the Arrowverse at all, like not even part of the multiverse. All Jefferson did was stand around in the background while we half-assed our way through Barry's death scene.

There's just a whole lot of nothing going on compared to the "smaller" events. Why was Earth X so much better?

>But I certainly wouldn't have made Anti-Monitor defeated by being shrunk either.

It was actually a pretty smart way and kinda' horrific way to go, not to mention it leaves the door open for him to escape in the future.

This. Either go for HBO adaptation or an all-out movie series.

Agreed. They should have embraced the smaller crisis though and focused in on Arrow, Flash, the Legends and Supergirl a bit more instead of blowing it out so much. Cut Batwoman and the others and get rid of that waste of a 5th episode.

I think Crisis on Earth X was the best of the crossovers and proof they can work. It's just that this was too ambitious.

Also what they did with Oliver in the first few episodes was stupid. The double death just chewed through time when they could've done something more meaningful with the character.